shoofly
shoohf lahy
- n an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- n a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
- Then He did such a good job on the "shoofly" squad, routing out grafters among his fellow cops, that he won promotions and made many a political enemy.
- Nazi Germany's record in music has been as shoofly as in the other arts: there are today more good German composers outside the Fatherland than in it.
- But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good recipe for the peach tart that .